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Minutes - 8 July 2003

Joint meeting of WAG and VOLT

WAG members present: Hennig (chair) (minutes), Darcy Duke, Christine Quirion, Stephen Skuce
VOLT members present: Duranceau, Hartman

1. Scenarios for a single e-journal list

We discussed how to improve the situation where our users need to check both BELL and Vera to find all e-journals. We looked at several different scenarios worked out in advance by Ellen and Nicole. The one that looks most feasible is to import aggregator titles (titles currently in the BELL lists) from the SFX Knowledgebase into Vera on a monthly basis. This would allow us to cancel the BELL lists from Serials Solutions.

We decided to test this on a copy of Vera on a test server. To deal with the fact that there is no easy way to apply our Vera subjects to those titles, we are experimenting with creating or modifying package-level records (or dummy records) to get them to appear at the top of appropriate subject lists in Vera. These records would tell people to check those packages for more titles. After the test is set up, we'll get feedback from subject selectors and other staff.

2. BELL: add search feature now? or later? or not at all?

Serials Solutions has sent instructions for adding a search feature to their lists (BELL). We decided to implement this in a test directory and send it out for comments to more staff. This could be an easy short-term improvement. We will include a note for off-campus users about going in via Vera, put the search box at top of every page, and make the search page be the first page that comes up.

3. FullText Finder: where does this fit into our picture for the short term?

We decided we can't make it public until 4th quarter fix release from ExLibris - there are just too many problems with it.

4. Other items

Nicole will talk to Sarah Wenzel about improvements she made with Serials Solutions (it won't work from off-campus). We should ask SFX if they can make Lexis-Nexis & similar packages go to title level as well.

Nicole work with Ellen to update Vera documentation on the staff web.

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